Our Calling

 Our Power of Twelve word this month has been from II Peter 1:10-11.

Therefore, my brothers and sisters, make every effort to confirm your calling and election. For if you do these things, you will never stumble, and you will receive a rich welcome into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

2 Peter 1:10-11

Other translations of these scriptures say to be more diligent, work hard, be eager, try harder.  The Lord wants us to each figure out what our calling in this life is.  He wants us to figure it out.  But how do we do that?  For me, I had to have the Holy Spirit reveal it to me after my brain tumor.  I had to admit to myself and others that I had not been walking obediently in what the Lord wanted me to do.  I had resisted Him in certain areas and trudged along in life without seeking out what it was specifically He needed me to do for Him.  I had committed most of my life to Him but not all of my life to Him.  I have to admit, I am selfish and only wanted to do so much even if it was for God.  Dummy me!  So He had to get my attention with a brain tumor.  How sad is that!?  

For the past 5 years I have done much better and I believe I have found what His calling is for me and that is to speak out about encouragement and with encouragement.  To not be afraid to step out and let Him use me for a voice.  I love to talk and I love people so what a better calling than talking and loving?  I know sometimes I don't always choose my words in the perfect way but I am still learning.  

I am still a work in progress and will be until my last breath here on the planet.

We each should want to please Jesus once we become His follower.  We should each want to do what He wants from us and not hide away hoping He won't make us go to a foreign country to preach the gospel to primitive tribes.  It's funny that we many times think He will make us do something we do not want to do.  That is never His way with His people.  Just think about all the patience He had with His chosen people, the Israelites. If anyone bungled it time after time, year after year, it was those people!  His chosen people, the Jewish, are still waiting for their Messiah.  They missed Him when He came  the first time which is so very sad.

Sometimes a calling is inviting a group of women into your home to be a hostess and  a friend.  Sometimes it is working in the Sunday School teaching little children about Jesus.  Sometimes it is baking and taking food to a family in distress.  Sometimes it is giving your money to someone in need.  Sometimes it is as simple as being the one praying for those you know who need prayer for the trials they are going though.  

Callings are what the Holy Spirit lays on your heart to do.  It is never anything you cannot do and is always something you do for Him and for others.  Callings are not about you, they are about others and it begins with a thought, a prompt from the Spirit of God.  A callings is something you can say "yes" to but it is always something you can say "no" to.  It's another one of those free will things.  It's His idea but your choice.  If you don't know what He has called you for just ask him and He will show you.  Don't wait for a brain tumor to pop up late in life when you could have been doing so much more for Him and the people in your life.

Jeremiah 29:13 (NIV) - You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart.

Matthew 7:7 (NIV) - Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you.

Proverbs 8:17 (NIV) - I love those who love me, and those who seek me find me.

Deuteronomy 4:29 (NIV) -But if from there you seek the LORD your God, you will find him if you seek him with all your heart and with all your soul.